• Our analysis of theVirginia race looks at the perils of a Trumpist platform. “We now know what a lot of us in the party already knew: The Trump message is a big loser in swing states,” one Republican strategist said.

President Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday. His visit is the stiffest test yet of a characteristically audacious bet: that he can persuade President Xi Jinping of China to help rein in North Korea.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times

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• Bloody, but unbowed.

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At home recovering from a gunshot wound, Rosanne Solis talks about the church shooting that killed 26 people on Sunday morning in Sutherland Springs, Tex.Published OnNov. 7, 2017CreditImage by Todd Heisler/The New York Times. Technology by Samsung.

In today’s 360 video, Rosanne Solis, who is recovering from a gunshot wound, talks about the church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Tex.

• A note so high, it’s never been sung before.

We meet the soprano Audrey Luna, who sings an A above high C in “The Exterminating Angel” at the Met Opera. For most performers, that’s the equivalent of a pole vault to the sun.

Now, one of his descendants is hoping to revive previously unpublished parts of the story.

Stoker took seven years to write the original novel, clawing his way through an overabundance of imagination and research that left much of the material in drafts.

The novelist’s great grandnephew Dacre Stoker announced he would release a prequel, “Dracul,” in 2018. Co-written with J.D. Barker, it draws heavily from Bram Stoker’s notes and journal and from family legends. Paramount has already bought the movie rights, so Dracula may be resurrected on the big screen once again.